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How To Stop A Proxy User From Dropping Tables (Doc ID 759216.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 10, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.4 to 11.1.0.6 [Release 10.2 to 11.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
 

Goal

Whenever a proxy user connects to the database , the user gets the privileges of a session user and sometimes it is necessary to restrict the operations performed by the proxy user(ex:dropping table) .

Consider the following example in which U1 is a session user, U2 is the proxy user, TU1 is a table owned by U1:

Solution

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